losta- vb. "to bloom" (VT42:18)
Quenya
losta-
verb. to bloom, to bloom, *blossom
Cognates
- ᴺS. losta- “to bloom, blossom”
Derivations
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ✶lotta- > losta [lotta-] > [losta-] ✧ VT42/18 Variations
- losta ✧ PE17/026 (
losta); VT42/18
losta-
to bloom
fúmë
sleep
fúmë noun "sleep" (LT1:253). Read perhaps *húmë in a LotR-compatible form of Quenya, since Tolkien later decided that fu- tended to become hu-.
A verb for “to bloom” appearing in notes from the late 1960s as a derivative of √LOT(H), but in that document it was deleted (PE17/26). However losta- “to bloom” reappeared in notes on The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor from 1969 with the same derivation, and in that document it was not deleted (VT42/18).
Conceptual Development: The verb ᴱQ. {lōta- >>} lōto- “to bloom” appeared in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s under the early root ᴱ√LO’O (QL/55). Some possible inflected forms for this Early Qenya verb appeared (untranslated) in one of the initial versions of the Oilima Markirya poem (PE16/57-58).